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The Kennan Institute is pleased to announce that the Wilson Center will host an exhibit by Valera and Natasha Cherkashin. An opening reception will be held April 4 from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m., and the exhibit will run through May 9, 2008.

This year, the Wilson Center honored Viktor F. Vekselberg with the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service and Patricia M. Cloherty with the Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship. Both awardees have dedicated significant parts of their careers to strengthening relations between the United States and Russia.

On November 15, Professor Anatoli Mikhailov, one of the leading personalities fighting for democracy in Belarus, will be awarded the Ion Ratiu Democracy Lecture Award at the Wilson Center. His lecture is entitled, "Democracy as a Challenge". This event is open to the public.

IREX is accepting applications for grants to U.S. junior scholars to participate in the 2008 Regional Policy Symposium on Frozen Conflicts and Unrecognized States in Southeast Europe and Eurasia. The application deadline is December 3, 2007.

The Ion Ratiu Lecture is pleased to announce that the 2007 recipient of the Ion Ratiu Democracy Lecture and Award is Professor Anatoli Mikhailov. Professor Mikhailov is one of the leading personalities fighting for democracy in Belarus.

Patricia M. Cloherty will receive the Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship and Viktor F. Vekselberg will receive the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service at Kennan Institute's annual dinner on October 18, 2007.